Linking selenium with electron framework (c#)

Question

I've already written few lines of code in C# using Selenium webdriver. As my application was transferred to the Electron framework everything has changed and honestly, I don't know how to cope with it right now.

Could you please clarify it to me? What steps should I take to simple start... I would like to continue my work in the current project (selenium, C#), but I'm not sure that it's possible, or I should completely start from scratch using a different language and framework?

I've read about Spectron, and checked the internet resources like stackoverflow, however I'm still in the point of unawareness...

Answer 1

Spectron with mocha is supposed to be faster.

But still here is what you need.This is Java & Selenium.

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","C:\\electron-chromedriver\\bin\\chromedriver.exe");
ChromeOptions chromeOptions = new ChromeOptions();
chromeOptions.setBinary("C:\\Users\\app.exe");
chromeOptions.addArguments("start-maximized");
DesiredCapabilities capability = new DesiredCapabilities();
capability.setCapability(CapabilityType.BROWSER_NAME, "Chrome");
capability.setCapability("chromeOptions", chromeOptions);       
driver = new ChromeDriver(chromeOptions);  

I have used the packaged electron app for binary (i.e) app.exe .

I think this is what you need.

Answer 2

Described below is related to using of Electron with .Net C# OpenQA.Selenium.

If you want to run electron app which being developed (consists of files index.html, main.js, etc.) you have to add following options (pay attention to 'app=' in cmd argument):

var options = new ChromeOptions();
options.BinaryLocation = @"your_path_to_electron\electron.exe";
options.AddArgument(@" app=path_to_folder_with_your_electron_app_src");

But if you want to run packaged electron app (*.exe) it is enough to use:

var options = new ChromeOptions();
options.BinaryLocation = @"path_to_folder_with_your_electron_app\your_electron_app.exe";

Also you can start any version of chromedriver.exe:

var service = ChromeDriverService.CreateDefaultService(path_to_folder_with_driver);
var driver = new ChromeDriver(service, options);

It might be helpful because I know that different electron applications are built on using of different version's drivers.